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Pastured Products Directory - District of Columbia
The following farms and ranches have certified that they meet Eatwild's criteria for producing grassfed meat, eggs and dairy products. Contact them directly for additional information or to buy their products: Garden Mountain Farm, located in scenic Burke’s Garden, Virginia, offers pasture raised poultry and pork as well as grass-finished, dry-aged beef and lamb. Burke’s Garden is an ideal location for grass based farming. This mountain valley is 3,200 feet above sea level and features cool season grasses more typical of the northern United States. We deliver our products to the following locations: Abingdon, Blacksburg, Richmond and Roanoke in Virginia, Washington, DC metropolitan area (Northern Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland) and Raleigh, North Carolina. We do not ship our products. For more information on our farm products and delivery schedule, please visit our website or contact us by email or phone. Garden Mountain Farm, Mike and Rebecca Hubbard, 840
Banks Ridge Road, Tazewell VA 24651. (276) 472-2511. At Good Fork Foods, we know our meat from beginning to end. Lovingly raised by Julie Bolton of Groff's Content Farm in Rocky Ridge, Maryland, or similar farms in southeastern Pennsylvania, our meat is organically raised, local and grass-fed and finished resulting in tasty, lean meat. No hormones or antibiotics are used. Transported for less than an hour and a half, the animals are slaughtered, butchered and USDA inspected at George Ruppersberger and Sons in Baltimore. A typical box of lamb contains 7-9 pounds. A typical box of beef contains 23-25 pounds. Boxes consist of a variety of mixed cuts which are frozen and wrapped for freezer storage. Cuts are individually wrapped, labeled and marked with weights. Lamb boxes include: leg roast, loin chops, shanks and ground lamb. (Some boxes may also contain: lamb breast, shoulder roast, rib chops and stew meat.) Beef boxes include a mix of the following cuts: porterhouse steaks, t-bone steaks, sirloin steaks & tips, round steaks & roasts, rump roast, flank steak, ground beef and stew meat. (Some boxes may also contain: shoulder steak & roast, chuck steak & roast, ribeye steak, brisket, french roast, breast deckel, short rib & prime rib.) Good Fork Foods, Devora Kimelman-Block, 7981
Eastern Avenue, #216, Silver Spring, MD 20910. (917)
864-7965. It's Only Natural Farm, (ION Farm for short), is located in southern MD, approximately 30 minutes south of Washington DC. We raise Texas Longhorn Beef Cattle, Heritage Tamworth Hogs, Layer Chickens, Broiler Chickens, Boer Goats, Ducks, Heritage Pilgrim Geese, Guinea, and Heritage Bourbon Turkeys for sale to the public for meat. All our animals are pastured/free range, and raised from birth on all natural diets. We use no hormones, antibiotics, or steroids. Meat is available for the 2010 season as 1/4 beef, 1/2, beef, 1/2 hog, whole hog, bar-b-que hog, and whole goat. Poultry and Fowl are sold by reservation. All meat is available on our website store and is either picked up at the butcher, the farm, or at three convenient drop off points here in southern MD. We welcome visitors at any time, but request a call before you come. We are members of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, the Tamworth Swine Association, the American Boer Goat Association, and are volunteers for the Charles County 4-H program. We treat ALL of our animals as pets, no matter their final purpose. We practice sustainable farming, and strive to educate the community in the benefits of pasture raised all natural meat and eggs. Please visit our website for upcoming events, product availability, and farm updates. We look forward to serving you and your family the best in all natural meats. It's Only Natural Farm, Lee and Tasha Anthony, 9645
Ironsides Road, Nanjemoy MD 20662. (301) 246-4845. Nick's Organic Farm raises tender delicious angus grassfed beef, pastured chicken and turkey, and free range eggs. Our certified organic herd grazes in the fertile Frederick Valley. Since 1979, we have been committed to quality organic products and constant improvement in our farming methods. We constantly conduct on-farm research with federal, state and non-profit agencies to refine our organic practices. We cooperate with USDA's Agricultural Research Service to improve our crops and pastures and to breed and manage our herd organically so that it has maximum natural resistance to disease without the use of synthetic chemicals. We also participated in a university study documenting the nutritional advantages of grassfed beef. Our organic beef are never fed grain, hormones or antibiotics. Our herd and flocks are moved frequently to fresh new pasture under a management intensive grazing system. We sell beef by the whole, half, quarter, eighth, and smaller quantities. An eighth will fit into the freezer compartment of a refrigerator, and many of our customers split an order with family or friends. Our beef is dry aged over two weeks, and it is cut and frozen in a USDA inspected small family owned facility. Our turkeys and chickens are fed organic grain grown on our farm and graze on our organic pastures, and receive no hormones or antibiotics. Our certified organic poultry is processed on our farm. Available at our processor or from our farms in Buckeystown or Potomac, MD, our beef, poultry and eggs are convenient to Washington-Baltimore, Northern Virginia, and Frederick-Hagerstown customers. Inquire about our Farm Tour days and about apprenticeship opportunities. We also sell organic poultry feeds, grains, and hay. Nick's Organic Farm, Nick Maravell, 8565
Horseshoe Lane, Potomac MD 20854 (301) 983-2167 (main office),
2733 Buckeystown Pike, Adamstown MD 21710 (301) 874-4854. Rappahannock Natural Foods Cooperative provides "Rappahannock Real-real food from real farmers." The RNF Coop is a small farmers’ coop formed with the idea of allowing customers in the Washington DC area to shop at one reliable source for all their local and natural farm products. We stand behind our products as being locally produced and humanely processed in a local slaughter house. The RNF Coop enables customers to shop for beef, lamb, pork, goat, chicken, eggs, produce and fruit all in one convenient place—either in our Sperryville, VA. farm store or on the web. Through the Coop, you can buy from the member farm of your choice and your purchases will be delivered to you on a weekly basis at your home or a convenient drop off point. To accommodate different tastes, we offer a variety of products, from certified organic to plain and natural. But whatever the diet, you will find it specified in the farm section. And it is all local. (Note: In addition to their grass fed beef and lamb, the Coop also offers beef and lamb which had a supplemental diet of grain, but still roamed around freely in the pasture. These products are clearly labeled both at their farm store and online.) Our members are mostly small farmers from Rappahannock and surrounding counties. Their families have been farming the land for untold generations, some going back as early as the 1700s. All raise their livestock in a humane and natural way without the use of hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. They grow their produce and fruits without unnecessary and harmful pesticides. Cows roam freely in green pastures, chickens scratch for grubs and seeds around the barn, pigs stroll outside or roll in the mud as they please, and lambs dart around in the clover. To ensure that our products are what we say they are, the Coop visits and inspects each of its members’ farms on a regular basis. We have one non-farming board member from the city who represents our customers and helps us to better understand our customers’ needs. Rappahannock Natural Foods Cooperative, Jerome Niessen, 3 River Lane, Sperryville VA 22740. (540) 987-9699. E-mail: sales@RNF.coop. Website: http://www.rnf.coop. Smith Family Farm raises grass-fed beef, pastured poultry (seasonally), free-range eggs, and free-range pork. We don’t take shortcuts, we don’t rush the process. Our animals are treated humanely, not raised in feed-lots, not housed in crowded buildings, not given harmful drugs of any kind. We also sell horse-quality hay and cattle hay. Throughout the year, we participate in several farmers markets throughout the metropolitan Washington, DC area. For those living near the Gainesville, VA area, we encourage you to visit the farm and see for yourself how the animals are raised. We have no trade secrets, we have nothing to hide. We're a 5th generation working farm conveniently located near the Manassas National Battlefield. For years now we've produced healthy, great tasting grass-fed meat, eggs, and much, much more. We're USDA inspected. We're also a Virginia quality-assured beef producer. The farm has been owned & operated by our family for more than 100 years, claiming Prince William County's only "Century Farm." Other services: manure removal, bush hogging, general hauling, and much more! Smith Family Farm, Leigh Smith, 5770
Artemus Road, Gainesville VA 20155. (571) 220-0017. Smith Meadows Free-Range Meats, located near Winchester, VA, offers free-range, grass-fed beef, pork, veal, goat, lambs, and eggs. We also offer turkey seasonally, as well as certified organic handmade pastas. Products are available year-round, by the cut, frozen, vacuum packaged, and USDA-inspected. Our on-farm store is located 60 miles west of the Washington D.C. beltway. Please visit our website for directions. Additionally, we attend the following farmers markets in the Washington D.C. area:
Smith Meadows Free-Range Meats, Forrest or Nancy
Pritchard, 568 Smithfield Lane, Berryville VA
22611. (877) 955-4389. SunnySide Up Farm provides pastured chickens six months of the year (during warm weather) with sales on the farm and at area Farmers' Markets, including Fredericksburg, Richmond 17th St., West Point, and Irvington. In addition to chickens, Pearce and Lori Gardner raise pastured turkeys for Thanksgiving, pastured geese for Christmas, and pastured pork and rose veal. All the animals are fed Fertrell's supplements and feed formulas, which contain no antibiotics, hormones, or animal by-products. All grains used are certified non-genetically modified. SunnySide Up Farm, Pearce and Lori Gardner,
558 Bowlers Road, Tappahannock VA
22560. (804) 443-1010. True Ewe Farm is a small, seasonal, grass-based sheep farm located in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, about an hour outside of Washington, DC. We produce natural, grassfed lamb and (coming in 2008) artisan farmstead sheep's milk cheeses. We are dedicated to following sustainable and humane agricultural practices to produce high quality foods from Virginia's fine mountain meadow grasses. Our lamb is tender, full of flavor and healthy for you. All our lambs are raised on the farm’s pasture salad – a local blend of native herbs, clover and grasses. They receive no antibiotics or growth-promoting hormones, and you never have to worry about animal byproducts in their diet. We employ intensive rotational grazing, which allows us to fulfill the sheep's natural desire to graze on the freshest feed possible and to naturally fertilize the land. We lamb once a year, so the supply is limited. Currently, we sell only whole lambs and half lambs. Intimidated by buying that much lamb? Don't be. Check out the “FAQ” section on our web site. We invite you to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Eat Local! Eat True! True Ewe farm, Kim Duty, 767 Zachary Taylor Highway, Flint Hill VA 22627. (540) 675-3387. E-mail: Kim@TrueEwe.com. Website: http://www.TrueEwe.com. West Wind Farm produces grass-finished MOUNTAIN PASTURED BEEF. Our beautiful mountain farm is located near Grassy Meadows in Greenbrier County, WV. We market our beef in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. (See website for more inforrmation about delivery locations.) Our Black Angus steers are finished for 5–6 months on our farm's rich grass and clover pastures, supplemented only with a natural kelp mineral mix. We feed no hormones, antibiotics, steroids, animal byproducts, GM feeds, or grain. We lead the animals to fresh pastures every one to three days. We do not send them to feedlots. Our steers are processed by a respected, family-owned, custom slaughterhouse in Lewisberg, WV. We believe in managing our animals gently and our pastures organically, for the optimum health of our environment, our animals, and our consumers. In winter and spring, MOUNTAIN PASTURED BEEF is available in 10–12 lb. mixed-cut sampler packets and/or 2-pound (8 patties) hamburger packs. In summer we invite advance orders for custom-butchered halves or split halves (quarters) for fall delivery. All our meat is USDA inspected, aged for at least 2 weeks, and flash frozen. For ordering details, see our West Wind Farm
website: http://www.westwindfarm.biz or
contact Martha Holdridge: Whitmore Farm specializes in pasture-raised, heritage breed chickens, turkeys, sheep and goats. Our animals spend their time on pasture and produce high-quality products which can be bought on-farm and at farmers markets in the Metropolitan D.C./Baltimore area. We also take special orders for lamb, eggs, chevon and vegetables in the spring, summer and fall. Many of our products are certified-organic by the Maryland Department of Agriculture, and we feel our animals are treated very humanely. Pasture-raised animals have better flavor, are more nutritious, and are better for you and our environment. We encourage farm visits and look forward to seeing you soon! Whitmore Farm, Will Morrow, 10720
Dern Road, Emmitsburg MD 21727. (301) 447-3611.
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